Drimva

Fireworks AI

Founding Data Scientist, Capacity & Pricing Optimization

$250K–$300K

San Mateo · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026

Experience
7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization.
Education
Master’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative field; PhD preferred.

About the job

Build and own quantitative models for pricing, packaging, and GPU capacity allocation to balance supply and customer demand.

What you'll do

  • Model serverless inference fill rates and traffic sharing to set capacity buffers.
  • Develop pricing policies and run experiments and causal studies to optimize utilization and price-yield.
  • Optimize GPU matching and capacity sourcing across hardware, vendors, clouds, regions, and commitment terms.

What they ask for

  • Master’s degree in Operations Research, Economics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience in pricing, revenue management, or optimization.
  • Strong grounding in at least two of stochastic optimization, revenue management and pricing, causal inference and experimental design, or combinatorial optimization.
  • Strong coding and optimization skills, with a track record of production-quality models driving business impact.

Nice to have

  • Experience on capacity planning, forecasting, or pricing science teams at a cloud provider or marketplace.
  • Familiarity with GPU infrastructure and LLM inference economics; experience as a first quantitative hire.

Pay

$250K – $300K (base salary; currency not stated)

Tools

GPU, LLM

AI focus

Optimize capacity, pricing, and hardware allocation for AI inference workloads.

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